Monthly Archives: February 2009

There are few things that equal cross-country skiing for pure silent graceful enjoyment. It is grace and it is purity on a blanket of white. It is a time of balancing and gliding across a crystalline carpet. It is poetry … Continue reading →

…..and
the clear song of a skilled poet telling with mastery of man’s
beginnings, how the
Almighty had made the earth a gleaming plain girdled with waters: in
His splendor
He set the sun and the moon to be earth’s lamplight, lanterns for men,
and filled
the broad lap of the world with branches and leaves; and
quickened life in every other thing that moved."